Jean Yoon Biography

Jean is an American-born Canadian actress and writer of Korean descent. Yoon is famous for acting the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play Kim’s Convenience and in the award-winning CBC TV series gotten from the play, and she won an ACTRA Award and was honored with two Canadian Screen Award nomination.

How old is Jean Yoon

Yoon was born on May 4th 1962, in Champaign, Illinois, US. She will be 61 years old as of May 4th 2023.

Jean Yoon Height

She has a height of 5 feet 1 inches tall.

Jean Yoon Early Life

Jean was given birth to by parents of Korean descent in 1962 and at the same time raised in Toronto, where she lives and works as of now. As per the information, the actress has never given details about, his parents or his childhood life.

Is Jean Yoon married

Jean has a son from a past relationship. By 2022 she was yet to be married. She has maintained her personal life very private.

Early Career in Theater

Yoon began her profession in theater as an actress in the early 1980’s and soon after called it quits out of frustrations after all her efforts to secure a job proved abortive. She went on to finish her degree at the University of Toronto. Ten years later, in 1995, she made a come back to acting and began her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes, in which she has written and produced plays which base on the Korean diaspora, mainly in Canada.

Transition into Television and Film

Jean’s acting profession started to make waves in the early 2000s with minor roles in many TV series, among them La Femme Nikita, Witchblade and Street Time. Come 2006, Yoon went viral after acting flight attendant Betty Ong in the controversial mini-series The Path to 9/11. In 2006, Yoon had a reprise role as June Kim in the legal drama series This Is Wonderland. Come 2007, she got a Gemini Award nomination for her job in the CBC mini-series Dragon Boys. In 2009, she featured Dr. Montague in the hit romantic comedy film The Time Traveller’s Wife, based on the novel of the same name.

Further Success in Television

From 2016 to 2021, he has featured Kim Yong-mi, the matriarch of the Kim family, in the CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience. She as well featured the same role in the 2011 play, which she authored and played over 240 times in six cities. For her part on Kim’s Convenience, Yoon received an ACTRA, Award and she was a five-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for the excellent Actress in a Comedy Series, winning at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. Yoon acted the part for the Show’s all five-season run.

In December 2022, she and retired South Korean most feared and respected figure skater Yuna Kim were endorsed as honorary ambassadors during the 60th anniversary ceremony of the diplomatic relations between Canada and South Korea in 2023.

Jean Yoon Net Worth

Jean’s net worth is roughly $5 million.

Jean Yoon Movie

• 2006 – Cow Belles
• 2009 – The Time Traveler’s Wife
• 2013 – Empire of Dirt
• 2013 – Wedding Palace
• 2016 – Rupture
• 2020 – Nocturne Falls
• 2021 – The Voyeurs
• 2024 – Cdoe 8: Part II

Jean Yoon TV Shows

• 1998 – La Femme Nikita
• 2002 – Street Time
• 2006 – The Path to 9/11
• 2007 – Dragon Boys
• 2014 – Remedy
• 2015 – The Expanse
• 2017 – Dark Matter
• 2018 – In Contempt
• 2019 – Street Legal
• 2021 –Nurses
• 2023 – The Horror of Dolores Roach